The Claremont Runさんのイラストまとめ

Havok leaves the X-Men immediately upon Claremont’s arrival on the book. Issues later, we discover that he’s found his bliss as a graduate student, living in the Arizona desert with the love of his life, Lorna Dane (aka Polaris). 2/7

Importantly for the widespread adoption of cinematic influence on the comics aesthetic (something Byrne helped to cultivate), three-point perspective also allows comics to better replicate the “dutch angle” camera techniques favoured by directors in the 1990s. 3/6

Moonstar was a rare and important character in comics history who had been sorely neglected by post-Claremont writers. Karma was a complex character with a very dark back-story that Claremont himself had sort of written away in the pages of New Mutants. 5/6

This includes Bowie’s embrace of fluid sexuality and gender identity, an attribute shared by Lennox. Thus, Rachel can be seen to signify not just 1980s fashion, but also an emergent perspective on human sexuality that was seeping into the mainstream. 4/5

Though this dynamic was novel for comics, it is also worth noting the sheer degree of difficulty that Claremont would have faced here: building platonic friendships that are as engrossing and captivating as intense romantic passions is no easy task. 4/6

For Cocca, this separation from traditional family units allows X-Men to explore a broader spectrum of relationships outside the usual “band of brothers” or “romance triangles” that had historically formed the goto relationships for comics authors. 3/6

In her Eisner-Award-winning manuscript “Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation,” scholar Carolyn Cocca identifies the atypical “found family” dynamic of X-Men as a key component of what made the series special. #xmen 1/6

In terms of accolades, from 1978-1980, Austin won an astounding 3 consecutive Eagle awards for favorite inker, in addition to innumerable other honours throughout his legendary decades-long comics career. 6/8

This additive approach is rare for inkers within the Marvel method where, due to time constraints, inkers might eliminate background detail from the pencils in order to save time. The most famous example of this is Vince Colletta who routinely erased Jack Kirby details. 4/8

Next up, the book goes for peer review, and might die there. PR is an important but flawed aspect of academic publishing where good ideas can sometimes get squashed due to stylistic variation (I don’t write in the high academic style) or camp-forming, or my book might suck. 10/13